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Trade Friction Cuts Into U.S. Spirits Exports
A combination of ongoing trade friction, retaliatory actions, and a sagging economy combined to cut U.S. spirits exports in 2025 by 3.8%, according to new… Read More
by Mark Gillespie4 viewsstoriesaluminumboycottcanadachris-swongerdiscus - news
Old Friends: Unibroue La Fin du Monde
Let me take you back in time. It is late December 2008 (yeah, I know, it seems like entire lifetimes ago), Mrs V and I have yet to leave Prague for the United States - in fact, at this point we didn't really know where in the US we would be moving to, given Mrs V hadn't found a job. At that time, my parents lived in an impossibly gorgeous hamlet in the Haute Vienne region of France, in an old farmhouse that still had a couple of acres of land attached. They had a small orchard, a pond, and green fields as far as the eye could see in every direction. Around 5pm every afternoon, the neighbours ran their herd of cattle, and the ground would gently tremor at the stampede. With Christmas just a week or so away, Mrs V and I flew to Paris Orly at some ridiculous time of the morning, to catch the train from Gare d'Austerlitz to La Souterraine, where my parents would pick us up and head to their hamlet. That particular winter I had ordered a load of beer from the UK, since my parents were visit
by noreply@blogger.com (Alistair Reece)4 viewscanadala-fin-du-mondeold-friendsunibroue